Death rate from obesity

Estimated annual number of deaths attributed to obesity per 100,000 people.

Source: IHME, Global Burden of Disease (2019)

Note: To allow comparisons between countries and over time this metric is age-standardized. Obesity is defined as having a body-mass index (BMI) ≥ 30. BMI is a person's weight (in kilograms) divided bytheir height (in meters) squared.